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Over the last couple of months, several people have forwarded me the following e-mail. It’s liberally dotted with terrible flood photos to illustrate the havoc, a few of which I’ll reproduce here. Two standards? After Katrina, the media blamed the...

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Over the last couple of months, several people have forwarded me the following e-mail. It’s liberally dotted with terrible flood photos to illustrate the havoc, a few of which I’ll reproduce here. Two standards? After Katrina, the media blamed the ...

1. U2 Philadelphia has been waiting to see U2 play its 360° Tour for more than a year and a half, since it first was announced in early 2010. Originally scheduled for last July, the show — as well as ...

Two and a half months after opening, Musikfest Café finally has its first sellout. moe. Jam band moe. had a crowd of 1,005 for its Sunday show, both ArtsQuest Vice President of Performing Arts Patrick Brogan and its Vice President ...

Country duo Court Yard Hounds, who are scheduled to play Musikfest Café at the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks tonight, averted disaster when they were the last band to complete a set before the main stage at Ottawa Bluesfest collapsed Sunday ...

Indie rockers the Damnwells will replace injured Gavin DeGraw as the supporting act for Train’s headlining concert at Musikfest’s main Steel Stage on Sunday, Musikfest has announced. The Damnwells Piano rocker DeGraw, who has opened for Train's nationwide tour

Erin McDermott tells stories when she sings — stories about small towns, traveling, lost love or anything else that fits into her imaginative tapestry of rural Americana. Those tales fill her CD "Time To Go," released in 2011, and you can hear them when the Er

WILKES-BARRE -- Darius Rucker made his switch to country music at precisely the right time. Darius Rucker in file photo As the popularity of Rucker’s 1990s band Hootie and the Blowfish waned in the general music market, the acoustic guitar-driven, ...

Here are the Top 5 concerts for the coming week: 1. APOCALYPTICA Saying Apocalyptica is “the world’s premier orchestral rock/metal band” isn’t much more revealing than saying it has rock’s foremost three-cellist lineup. There aren’t many bands out there playin

The stage that has traditionally been Musikfest’s second-largest, Americaplatz, is moving this year, but many of its shows will be the same, according to a partial list of acts at its free stages that Musikfest has released. Americanplatz will move ...

For the siblings of the Mississippi trio the Band Perry, there's always been something special about the fair.
On "Walk Me Down the Middle," a love song from the group's 2010 self-titled album, lead singer Kimberly Perry instructs a...

Baltimore’s Nelly’s Echo made his second — and unfortunately last — appearance on NBC’s “The Voice” Monday night, as contestants entered into the battle rounds and some, sadly, went home.
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Nelly’s Echo — Nelson Emokpae, for us local...

Google the word “love” and you’ll get 8 billion results. Apparently it’s a popular subject. Taylor Swift has never needed a search engine to tell her this.Since her major label debut at the age of 16, Swift has rocketed to stardom with songs that, quite...

Music games have the power to turn people on to new music. And what genre needs more rehabilitation than country music? More people hate on Nashville's music than live in the entire state of Tennessee. I've been playing "Rock Band: Country Track...

Pop provocateurs Lady Gaga and Eminem may have brought more compelling career stories to the 53rd annual Grammy Awards, but on a shocking night the big trophies went home Sunday with Southern trio Lady Antebellum and Montreal indie-rock band Arcade Fire....

Musical protests of world events have gone from a tentative trickle following the terrorist attacks of 2001 to a flood of songs objecting to America's invasion of Iraq.
The sudden outspokenness of musicians has inflamed emotions on both sides of the war...